Following on from the massive success of social apps like Facebook and Twitter in the consumer space, over the past couple of years we’ve seen a new wave of social networking tools, such as  Yammer ,  tibbr ,  present.ly , Socialtext and  Salesforce.com’s Chatter hoping to capture similar successes in the enterprise market. MORE >>

Enterprise-class social networking is apparently all the rage, news that will be met with mixed emotions by anyone who feels that some of these tools are more annoying than useful. Salesforce.com was early to the party with Chatter , and Microsoft has been pushing SharePoint as a vehicle for a social networking in a workplace context. MORE >>

In place of email, Breton says that Atos will increasingly encourage its employees to collaborate on instant messaging and social networking platforms. The rapid rise of platforms like  Yammer  and Salesforce’s  Chatter  - which are exclusively geared towards the enterprise — suggest the larger rise of the “social enterprise.”. MORE >>

Scrybe’s Convofy is a new enterprise social networking tool aiming to take on established players like Yammer , Socialtext and Salesforce Chatter. Convofy enterprise-social-networking social business Social Business Application social business tools YammerThere are some other innovative features, too. MORE >>

A while back I blogged about the possibility of networks and blogospheres cutting into the need for communities. If I have a question about Friendfeed functionality I will not post in my network, but I will go to their feedback room. Actually I lie, I live in Twitter, so naturally I will first post a question to my Twitter network. MORE >>